David Lee Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist, Continuum, London, 2011, Pp. 246, $153. Reviewed by Kosmas Tsokh
BOOK REVIEWS 143 social science analysis must cross received disciplinary boundaries and that other disciplines have also brought important insights to bear on understanding economic and social order and development (Butler, Jones, & Stilwell., 2009). This provides an example that economists in general could seek to emulate. References Butler, G., Jones, E., & Stilwell., F. (2009). Political Economy Now!: the Struggle for Alternative Economics at the University of Sydney. Sydney: Darlington Press. Caldwell, B. J. (1986). Towards a Broader Conception of Criticism, History of Political Economy, 18(4), 675-681. Dixit, A. K. (1996). The Making of Economic Policy: a Transaction-cost Politics Perspective. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Severin, W. J., & Tankard, J. W. (1997). Communication Theories: Origins, Methods, and Uses in the Mass Media (4th ed.). New York: Longman. David Lee Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist, Continuum, London, 2011, pp. 246, $153. Reviewed by Kosmas Tsokhas David Lee’s biography of Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883-1967) has been reviewed and discussed in online media, in the daily press and in scholarly journals. Why so much interest in Bruce at this time? For one reason or another, Lee’s book has coincided with an expansive interplay of writing and researching on contemporary issues that also preoccupied Bruce. These include the implications of international investment and trade for unequal distributions of wealth between nations; the struggles between trade unions and employers over 144 JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY No 71 the regulation of the labour market; the roles of politicians and economists in the battles between neo-classical, monetarist and Keynesian ideas; and the historical lessons from the 1930s for sustained recovery from the global financial crisis.
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